Systems and methods for visualizing arguments
First Claim
1. An argument visualization graphical user interface, comprising:
- a hypothesis overview portion;
an evidence marshalling portion; and
an argument construction portion.
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Abstract
Hypotheses are questions of interest to an observer. Evidence are facts that establish or disprove hypotheses or sub-hypotheses. Inferences are logical links that connect facts to hypotheses as evidence. An argument is a set of facts linked by inferences to support or disprove a given hypothesis. Hypotheses, sub-hypothesis, facts, evidence, inference and arguments are visualized using a plurality of interrelated graphical user interfaces. A main visualization screen includes a fact visualization portion, a hypothesis visualization portion and an argument construction visualization portion. The evidence visualization portion comprises an evidence display portion, an evidence details portion and visualization selection widgets that allow different evidence visualization or marshaling techniques to be applied to visualize the facts. The argument construction visualization potion allows hypotheses, sub-hypotheses and conjectures to be associated into an argument, facts to be associated and inference links to be added to link the facts to various ones of the hypotheses.
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21 Claims
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1. An argument visualization graphical user interface, comprising:
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a hypothesis overview portion;
an evidence marshalling portion; and
an argument construction portion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for visualizing an argument, comprising:
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defining at least one hypothesis;
determining, for each of at least some of the at least one defined hypothesis, if that hypothesis supports at least one other defined hypothesis;
creating a link for each hypothesis determined to support at least one other defined hypothesis, between that hypothesis and each of at least one other defined hypothesis that hypothesis was determined to support;
defining at least one fact;
determining, for each of at least some of the defined facts, if that fact is relevant to at least one of the at least one defined hypothesis;
assigning a credibility value to at least some of the defined facts;
creating a link for each fact determined to be relevant to at least one hypothesis, between that fact and each of at least one hypothesis that fact was determined to be relevant to;
defining a relevance value to each created link;
displaying, for each of at least one defined hypothesis, an acyclic directed graph of that hypothesis, created links that connect other defined hypotheses or defined fact to that defined hypothesis, and the linked other defined hypotheses and the linked defined facts; and
determining a score value for each at least one defined hypothesis based on the displayed acyclic directed graph.
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